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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "www.ikea.nl" <foundation_ikea@yahoo.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:20:42 +0300
Subject: Call to confirm (N-222-6748, E-901-58)

Foundation's Officer,
Stichting INGKA Foundation,
The Netherlands.
http://www.ikea.nl/

Dear Sir,Madam

NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID.

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the
Board of trustees of the above International charity
organization based in the Netherlands as one of the
final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation for your own
personal,education and business development

The Dutch-registered Stichting INGKA Foundation is
named after Kamprad, and owns INGKA Holding, the
parent company for all IKEA stores. The charitable
foundation was reported by the business newspaper, the
Economist in May 2006 to be technically the world's
wealthiest charity - with an estimated value of at
least US$36 billion in 2006 (larger than the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation) - but its primary purpose
is, by some, believed to be corporate tax-avoidance
and anti-takeover protection for IKEA.Kamprad is
chairman of the foundation.Having been rated as the
biggest charity foundation in Europe for the year
2007,the foundation has decided to randomly select
email addresses that would benefit from this year's
donation/award.

Stichting INGKA Foundation in conjunction with the
United Nations Organization (UNO) and the European
union, is giving out a yearly donation of One Hundred
Million United States Dollars as specific
Donations/Grants to 50 lucky international recipients
worldwide in different categories for their
educational pursuit,health care,personal Business
development and uplift of their enviroment. These
funds are freely given to you to use for your business
educational and personal development, and at leats 30%
to be used by you to develop a part of your
enviroment, as this is a yearly program, which is a
measure of universal development strategy, and
eradication of poverty.

Please kindly note that you are not the only
beneficiary in your country this year, and your
country is not the only country that is benefiting
from this donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen
from countries from all continents.

The idea of this donation is that within ten years
from now, there will be notable richness among many
unusual people around the world.

This will give many people the opportunity to get
their lives to a stage where they had always wanted.
Kindly note that you will only be chosen to receive
the donation once.which means that, subsequent
yearly donation will not get to you again, so its your
choice to spend the donation wisely on something that
will last you a long time. And please do not bother
following up this email, if you have
benefited from this donation in previous years.

Based on the random selection exercise of internet
service providers(ISP) and millions of Super market
cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the
lucky recipients to receive the award sum of
US$2,000,000.00(Two Million United States Dollars) as
charity donations/aid from the Stichting INGKA
Foundation and the UNO in accordance with the enabling
act of Parliament.Note that, your email was selected
from either the internet, or a Shop's cash invoice
around your area in which you might have purchased
something from.

You are required to expeditiously Contact the
Executive Secretary below for qualification
documentation and processing of your claims, from
Monday through Sunday.

On contact with this officer, you'll be given your
donation pin number which you will use in collecting
the funds.

Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers
(N-222-6748, E-901-58) in all discussions.

***********************************
Executive Secretary,

Mr. Steven Garden
Tel:+31 619 114 285
Fax:+318 474 54671.
Email:ikeafoundation_nl@yahoo.de
**********************************

Please note that this donations/Grants are strictly
administered by "European Union" under delegated
powers from the UNO. you are by all means hereby
advised to keep this whole information confidential
until you have been able to collect your donation, as
there have been many cases of double and unqualified
claim, due to beneficiaries informing third parties
about his/her donation.

Finally, all funds should be claimed by their
respective beneficiaries, not later that 15 days after
notification, as failure to do so will be to that
particular beneficiary cancelled and its donation
reserved for next years receipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest
congratulations

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Angela Jones
(Foundation officer)





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